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This Timbaland beat was first offered to Jay Z—a moment captured for posterity in the documentary Fade To Black

The beat is well suited to Luda, as he moves in and out of flows and once he’s finished with that, he sings an American folk spiritual. The song ends only after “there’s nothing really missing to say.”